But House Republicans insisted the bill is too supportive of immigrants, the LGBT community, and Native Americans — and they’d rather let the law expire than approve a slightly expanded proposal. Vice President Biden, who helped write the original law, tried to persuade House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to keep the law alive, but the efforts didn’t go anywhere.

And so, for the first time since 1994, the Violence Against Women Act is no more.

It would be interesting and yes, I’d imagine that a majority of younger, same sex, and non-white married women vote Democatic. However, I also think its a bit non-relevant in that a majority of married women still believe that the GOP represents them better than the Democratic Party.

Most particularly they support the right of white men to rape Native American women (who suffer the highest rates of rape of any group in the US). The sticking point was provisions to increase federal protections for Native women on reservations (where the federal government has exclusive felony jurisdiction).

Because he was better than the colored commie, as far as they were concerned. I don’t know that Republicans liked Romney any better than Dems did, they just really, really hate Obama. Voted against him rather than for Romney.

I don’t think this post is supportive of the whole truth. There has to be something substantial within it unsupportive of helping the country in it’s current stricken state. For example, the department of human services has just purchased a substantial amount of hollow point ammunition. Why? In case of a civil war with the legislative gun ban directly against our constitution and freedom. The names of things often become a disguise for something completely different than they were intended for. There is more money earned by women than men in this country now, violence against women is not at all tolerated, and for the first time ever in 2012, Caucasian births in this country was not in 1st place. We have a debt problem for many reasons, one being Obama allowing welfare for illegals (“minorities”). Sometimes, try reading between the lines, via some common sense (assuming you’re truly educated enough with current events to have any)

I just can’t imagine Eric Cantor being against it for purpose of it’s title.. who knows anymore. I don’t feel the people are being represented well. I like to have faith in the ones that seem to still work for the people.

Cantor opposed it because it expanded funding to fight rape on Indian reservations (where the federal government has exclusive felony jurisdiction). That is what he actually said he opposed. Native women have the highest rate of rape of any group and their rapists are overwhelmingly white. Any more questions, cracker?

the department of human services has just purchased a substantial amount of hollow point ammunition. Why? In case of a civil war

It’s interesting to trace this down, since it’s been an object of some hysteria among the far right (and some far lefties, as well). Turns out thast HHS has 300 armed agents conducting welfare fraud invesigations–they arrest people, and execute search warrants, so they need to be armed. Hollow point bullets are standard law enforcement issue in this country. Most of these rounds get shot off at firing ranges. And of course, this is a standard purchase according to a practice going back decades . . .

Nah, he’s relying on the lies of Paul Cameron. Remember, dude is obsessed with gay folks. He thinks that the fraudulent research of Paul Cameron (and the fraudsters at the FRC) are telling the truth when saying that gay men die in their 40s…and he’s loving it. Truly a Reaganite, celebrating gay death. Vile monsters, the lot of them. Then again, that’s the conservative movement.

Golly gee, so if only I had more blog comments, you might deign to tell me whether or not you’ve ALWAYS been a dimwitted little creep? Can’t say that makes much sense to me, but it’s something to aspire to, I suppose. Or at least it WOULD, it malignancies like yourself were really worthy of that level of scrutiny.

Janklow had every one taken care of that was involved in that case back in ’75 (Jacinta Eagle Deer) and ’76 (Delphine Eagle Deer). OK Big Bill probably did not have them killed. I hope this covers me against a Janklow family libel suit.

Since Janklow is dead, you are probably immune from defamation suits concerning him in any event. (I’m not aware of any state that allows defamation claims based on post-mortem statements about the decedent.)

Now I’ve been totally sidetracked by this interesting legal question (ooh! shiny thing!) What about if the defamation diminishes the value of somebody’s estate? Say, if you came forward with convincing evidence that a famous dead person (whose estate is still raking it in for his or her heirs) was a pedophile and it meant that nobody wanted to buy the official branded memorabilia?

What is really important here is that the federal government has exclusive felony jurisdiction on Indian reservations under the 1885 Major Crimes Act. Also, tribes do not have any jurisdiction over non-Indians under Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe and tribal police cannot arrest them or tribal courts try them.

Depends on the reservation. There are two federal police agencies responsible for reservation law enforcement. One is the FBI, whose offices are often located far from the reservations. The other is the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police, who are often stationed on the reservations.

Both agencies have their problems. The FBI often uses assignment to reservation areas (Aberdeen or Flagstaff for instance) as a punishment for troublemakers or as a dumping ground for fuckups. Reservation crime has a low priority and gets only cursory attention and few resources. The BIA Police are notoriously poorly trained, understaffed, and underfunded.

There have always been legitimate problems with VAWA, namely that it centers the needs of a subset of women while further marginalizing others. Of course, the version of VAWA that the House Republicans failed to pass would have addressed several of them. Apparently they saw the problems as a feature, not a bug.

I hope the rape crisis counseling line that I counsel for doesn’t get bit in the ass by this.